Abstract: In a continuous ingot casting installation, a table of ingot support rollers is arranged in the horizontal cutting zone. This table is arranged between an upstream and a downstream set of ingot support rollers and is reciprocably displaceable therebetween in the direction of the path of movement of the continuously cast ingot and parallel to that of the displacement of a cutting machine. The table is displaced automatically in a direction opposite to that of the cutting machine each time the oxygen torch of the machine approaches one of the rollers of the table and returned to its initial position. In this way, billets are cut from the cast ingot.